"Previously on Shop Class..."
You're actually building a little free library.
Ladies and gentlemen, my biggest fan.
- Amazing! - And the winning team is...
- the Gold team. - What? Yeah!
"Kyle, Elisa, and Andrew secured their spot in the semi-finals."
"Three new teams take the spotlight."
We're so close, I could taste it.
"To turn wooden palettes,"
"AstroTurf, and an electric motor into mini-golf masterpieces."
"Putting their own unique spin on family fun."
Wait. You can't take another team's ball.
"To try and make a hole in one."
- Fore! - "And a superstar golf pro"
"will put their creations to the test."
Professional Golf Champion, Michelle Wie.
"With five spots up for grabs,"
"which of these teams will secure a spot in the next round?"
- Dude. - Man.
Look, this is awesome you guys.
My mind is completely blown.
"I've never seen that many tools and equipment all in one place."
"It's way bigger than my garage."
- The car. - Look at the blueprints.
The room is amazing. There's so much crafting supplies,
"so much paper for me to draw on, plan everything."
Hey, guys.
Stop it. I don't deserve that. Welcome to Shop Class.
You are all the best at what you do, and that is why you're here.
Three teams have come to compete, but only one team will conquer, and move on.
- "We got the Gold Team." - My name is Daron.
I'm 14 years old. I like building. I like testing.
I'm Marco. I'm 11 going to 12 and I love wood work.
I'm Kim. And I'm a Shop Teacher
"at Bella Vista Middle School in Temecula, California."
You know, there aren't enough girls in science and shop,
and we've got them there, and that's why I do what I do.
- "We got the blue team." - I'm Hailey.
"I'm 14 years old. And I love to paint."
I'm Erik. I'm 12 years old.
"And I love to build with my hands."
I'm David Eunez. I've been working with wood
for the last like, I don't know, 50 years.
When I was considerably younger, my mother told me to make friends,
so uh, I started carving my own.
Rounding things off is the Green Team.
I'm Bella. I'm 13. And I love wood working.
My name is Nikolai. I am 13 years old. And I really, really love designing.
My name is Jason. And I am the Wood Shop Teacher
at Santiago Charter Middle School in the City of Orange.
I love seeing my students get those "aha" moments.
Jason, what is your game plan for today?
How are you gonna "hammer home" a victory?
I think we have some mad machine skills.
Bella, what'd you think of my pun, my hammering home pun?
- It was very clever of you. - Thank you.
- So I applaud you for that. - Thank you.
Okay. Well, great. Well, far so good.
Before we put your Shop Class skills to the test,
let's meet the skill panel of judges,
who will decide which one of your projects is top of the class.
First up, is an interior designer and home decor expert,
- Ms. Lauren Makk. - Hi, guys.
Award-winning maker and architect, Brooks Atwood.
Hello. Hey, guys.
Finally, our guest judge from Walt Disney Imagineering, Kathryn Yancey.
My name is Kathryn Yancey,
and I'm a show mechanical engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering.
"We work on audio animatronic figures,"
kind of anything that brings you into the story.
"I've worked on Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge"
"and Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure."
Enough talk. Let's build. That's what we came here for, right?
- Yeah. - So, teachers,
grab a push chart and bring it back to your station.
I see the carts that are covered, and I just really wanna know
"what's under them. Me and Nick were brainstorming what it probably was."
Nick thought it was a human.
Okay. On the count of three, pull those tarps. Are you ready?
- Yeah. - One, two, three. Pull them.
Okay.
So what do we have here? You see a roll of green Astroturf, some wood.
You're building your own mini-golf hole.
- All right! - Oh, my God.
- Oh, that's so good. - That's so cool.
It's gonna be amazing.
I love mini-golf, so I can't wait to build it and just play with it.
So each team will be designing and building their very own mini-golf hole.
"So we have pre-built modular platforms,"
"putters, golf balls, golf hole, spray paint, spinning motor mechanism,"
"and my favorite, a roll of green Astroturf."
"You'll have to include at least two of the pre-built modular wood platforms."
You can add or build more if you're feeling ambitious, totally up to you.
You also have to incorporate the motor mechanism into your design.
Be sure to use the motor in a way that elevates the design
and playing experience. Your builds will be judged
"on design creativity and overall build functionality."
You'll have just three full days to make the mini-golf hole of your dreams real.
And then each course is gonna be played and evaluated.
The winning team will move on to the semi-finals
and be one step closer to the championship.
All right, guys. Let's tee this up. Are y'all ready?
- Yes, ready! - Yeah.
Let's get building.
All right. What are we thinking?
Through the engineering and construction,
you can manipulate gravity and physics.
And as an architect, that's really what I'm looking for.
You guys play it, right? Do you like it?
- I went like last week. - Okay. Here we go.
As an interior designer, I'm always working with themes,
whether they'd be color or time periods.
Whatever it is that really tells a story about my design.
And that's what I'm looking for, for these golf holes today.
So you're gonna try and think of a theme,
and we'll all look at each other's ideas.
The first thing we do is decide to brainstorm.
We each write down our vision of this golf course, and we pull the best thing
about each design, so it would be a little bit of all of us in there.
What kind of themes are you guys thinking?
- I'm thinking like space. - Yeah. Me, too.
"We started talking right away about a space theme,"
like the moon and a rocket.
Maybe like a ramp, so the ball goes up the ramp and into it,
and maybe there's some tubing, that it rolls all the way down.
Oh, yeah. That would be actually really cool.
"Team Gold is shooting for the stars."
"There will be two paths, a steep incline ending in a wormhole shortcut,"
"and a longer obstacle-ridden journey through space."
Where were we?
That motor is gonna be kind of a propeller,
and you have to hit it, so it goes through the hole, under the plane.
If we put up some mountains, and maybe nice fluffy clouds.
My team are designing a full-out airplane,
just taking off over a huge valley with mountains.
How about if we go with this, how about we have a crashed one there?
- A crashed plane? - Yeah.
And you have to shoot it through the hole.
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah. - That's amazing.
"Blue Team's ambitious design will feature two airplanes, mountains,"
"and clouds, and their motor will power the plane's propeller."
Once we have the main elements done...
- We can do that. - then make it as, wild as you want.
So what color should the dragon be by the way?
- Red and black. - Red and black is great.
- What else? - Like a goblin.
- Like a troll. - Like a troll, yes.
These ideas are popping out so fast, I think we got a castle, dragon, a troll.
- There's the troll. - I'm digging it.
This thing is going to become a medieval build.
I've never seen so that a mini-golf hole is moving itself.
We could take this as the final hole.
"To stand out from the others,"
"Green's medieval-themed course will have a spinning hole."
If we actually make sure the ball can actually get
into something that's spinning, that's gonna be really important.
"Lauren is working with each of the teams"
"to help them hone in on executing their designs."
Hi, Yellow Team. I see you guys are busy at work.
You guys had a question about how do you think paint will hold on the carpet?
There's two ways you could go about this. Spray paint....
would probably seem like the natural thing you'd wanna do,
but I would actually recommend using like a nice latex paint.
- Oh, okay, thank you. - Does that make sense?
- Let's see. I have a few suggestions. - Yes.
Make sure that it has like a really cool aesthetic. Give it a realistic look.
What color would you think would work with our plan?
Colors that are complimentary to the green platter, like purples and reds.
I'm really appreciating the fact that
she's giving us some ides on how to make the color pop.
- All right. Get to work. - All right.
Imagineering, we really focus on safety, innovation, inspiring others.
And I think by using those key principles, you really can achieve
this experience that you're looking for.
So with these teams, if they're working together and they are aware of,
you know, innovation, being creative, you know, pushing the boundaries,
um, I think that they can really achieve something great.
- Yes. - Power drills.
- I'm like drill happy. - You're good. I know, right?
Fastest way to glue is
you put a nice big swirl in it and it's just like you're icing a cake.
- Okay. - You're just gonna smear it out.
"In addition to teaching wood shop for the past 20 years..."
Why do I like to teach Shop Class?
Well, I get to come in every day and make stuff.
"David holds a Master of Arts degree in Studio Wood and Sculpture."
- Foam is flying. - Hey. Guess what?
- What? - You can't make a masterpiece
- if you don't make a mess. - Yeah.
If we can accomplish everything that I think we can accomplish,
"I don't see any reason why the judges would not tell us"
that we are the best build.
- All right. - This is fun. I like this.
- I wanna do more. - Okay. Just like last time.
One, two, three. All right.
Once we put glue on this, we'll use these to kind of cinch it up.
- This line should go here. - Yeah.
- So, it needs to go down. - Good job, guys.
I feel like our team has some natural team chemistry.
"Daron is an avid inventor."
This is a solar pool heater.
Traditional pool heaters are expensive and they pollute the earth.
And I'm working to get a patent on this design.
"And was awarded first place at the LA County Science Fair"
"in engineering applications."
Good job. Team work.
Ms. Kim is a great teacher. She teaches me to be patient.
And before we jump into action,
we could just look how we can approach our design.
- We use this is a template. - Yes.
So we don't have to measure each piece.
And if we just keep pushing, I think we could win this.
"Kim is a National DuPont Challenge winning teacher."
I grew up at my dad's boat shop.
And I was there with a bunch of guys that were always building things.
"And two-time recipient of the outstanding coach award"
"for Science Olympiad."
- Good job. - I am going to give you guys
a crash course in how to use a caulking gun.
"Jason's work as a Wood Shop teacher"
"has been recognized by the Rotary Club for enhancing class content."
One of my favorite things as a Wood Shop teacher is to see
their delight when they've made something on their own.
"And he's also been granted an Unsung Hero Award"
"for innovation and excellence in education."
Just think of it like a big glue stick.
Squeeze. I want to snake all the way down.
Perfect. You work as a team.
You think it's too long?
"Ms. Kim helps Marco and Daron"
"determine the optimal angle for the ramp obstacle."
If we're gonna hit from there, we're not gonna be able to get it all the way up.
Marco and Daron have these great ideas.
That's really tall.
So two feet, then how will the ball be able to go through those tubes?
"But Daron wants to make this really high slope"
"that could frankly shoot the ball over the moon."
It just needs a little slope, and we'll drop it right into the hole.
"And so I'm just trying to explain to him it doesn't need to be that high,"
"as long as we keep a slope going all the way into the hole."
We need to get those dimensions down.
We can have fun, but it's also got to function.
So, little teaching moment.
Looks like frosting.
Yeah. It's not really good to eat, though.
All right. I like it. We'll start working on something else.
"When Bella's not building, she volunteers"
"in her local community, helping to keep the parks and beaches clean."
"One of my favorite things that I made was..."
"making a greenhouse for the Honolulu Zoo."
- You got a cut? - Yes, sir.
- Let's go. - So, the bumpers,
they're sort of hard to get on alone,
because you need to hold up both sides so it's even,
and I'm not a very, like, coordinated person sometimes.
So Erik and I, we would help each other put it on.
Even the ship still holds, though. That's amazing. That's good wood.
"Erik is passionate about wood working and also excels in STEM,"
"where he was named the top robotics student in his middle school."
This was a solar phone charger and also emergency light.
You just set it out in the sun and it will start charging.
You don't wanna go in a straight line, 'cause it causes the wood to split.
- Oh, okay. - So you always wanna stagger them.
- Okay. - You stay on this side,
I'll go over there. Let's put this right in the middle.
"Once we got started, it's definitely been..."
moving fast, working hard.
More, more, more, more, more. Very good.
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and tears that...
are gonna go into this project before it's all done.
All that for a circle.
And I'm looking forward to what the next couple of days bring.
We got a lot done, but we need to do a lot more tomorrow. Are you good for it?
- Yeah. - All right. Let's go guys.
- Gold. - Gold.
"The teams are back for day two of the build with a renewed sense of energy."
- We're back. - It's an awesome day.
- All right, boys, you ready? - Yeah.
There's definitely an unmistakable feel today.
"And there's an excitement, but the big picture stuff"
"that we're gonna put out there still needs a lot of work."
Are you ready to work really hard today?
- Yeah. - Good. 'Cause we need a lot done.
I'm gonna go make magic.
"The Blue Team has their work cut out for them."
"They have to finish attaching the turf and rails."
"Plus, the clouds, airplanes, and mountains all need to be created."
- Now all of you are gonna paint these. - Okay.
My favorite thing about painting is, like, the creative freedom that I have.
- That looks awesome. - "When Hailey's not working "
"with her hands, she participates in jazz, funk, and hip-hop group dances."
I've been dancing since I was around three,
um, and I've been singing, just at home, because it's really fun.
"Eunez works with Hailey to help elevate her painting."
Okay. Now what we're gonna do is dry brushing. You know what dry brushing is?
Eunez taught me how to dry brush. And I didn't know what that was.
I was like, "Are we just gonna paint with a dry brush with nothing on it?"
It's not really dry, but it's dry-er, so they call it a dry brush.
But then he showed me that you put some paint on it,
take a lot of the excess off.
That's cool. You're very slightly going over it, so it's not like a solid color.
- Are you good? You got it? - Yeah.
I'm really happy with how they turned out.
These are beautiful. These are magnificent.
- Dude, this is not moving. - Good.
That is a clean circle.
Sounds like a balloon letting out air.
Oh, my God. Yeah.
The big thing we need to finish before the challenge is done
is the moving target.
"In addition to their moving hole, Green Team needs to complete the rails,"
"troll, dragon, and giant medieval castle."
So we're gonna cover this in green,
and I'll show it how-- I'll show you guys how it works.
You know, once that person who's putting
sees they have to hit a moving target...
Yay.
I think that's gonna blow everyone's mind.
I wonder what the other teams are doing with their motor.
I don't think they're doing this.
So I was like, "How are we gonna pull this off?"
And once I saw that, I was like, "What?"
"Nik excels in Shop Class."
I build a lot of things and I love it. It's just really cool.
"And on the little league field,"
"where he's helped his team earn two championship titles."
- They're having a rotating hole. - I know.
- That's so cool. - No.
Yeah. The Green Team has like a really cool spinning hole.
It seems like the judges will really like that.
And we just have like... a hole.
- So... - We don't even have a hole yet.
You're wasting time.
We're not wasting time.
We're having fun. That's what we're doing.
"Gold Team may be having fun, but there's still a lot to do."
"They've yet to set up their ramp and wormhole,"
"and the moon and rocket need to be created."
- Oh, my God. - Wait, did you see-- Wait.
- You got to see though. - Yes.
"Marco's top of his class in wood working."
I love to put the tools in here, but I don't have any in right now.
"And his building abilities extend beyond shop. He also knits."
Now, we said though, it's a hole-in-one, if you get it,
so it has to be a little bit difficult, right?
So our ramp is pretty steep, but I think it gives a good challenge.
This is huge. It's supposed to resemble lift off
and lift off is not supposed to be easy.
That's gonna go straight down over to the hole, right?
- Exactly. - So difficult,
but automatic hole-in-one.
Disney Imagineers really have to pay attention to the details.
The details are what allow you to fully immerse into the experience.
So the Imagineers have to go through the entire story,
and make sure that everything is seamless.
- We still have dragon sketches up here. - Yeah.
- Cut this out. - "Mr. A introduces"
"a technique to help Nik and Bella create their foam sculptures."
Literally take it, put it on there, and kind of take
a pen or pencil and like push against your drawing to get the shape of it.
- Yeah - It can be actually incredibly tricky
as a teacher to have students come up with sometimes amazing ideas.
But they are super lofty.
So every time I get to one of these spots that angles like this,
I'm gonna make a straight cut. That's called relief cuts.
Don't try to cut the whole thing out all at once.
Start with your relief cuts, then transition.
Oh, yeah. That went in nicely.
You always wanna pre-drill.
Voila.
"Now that the structures are starting to take shape,"
"Judge Brooks drops by to see the teams' progress."
Is it gonna be able to go up there and get in the hole?
- Hello, Gold Team. - Hi.
- Hi! How you guys doing? - How are you?
- Good to see you. - Space is black.
It's dark, it's scary.
So how is the overall aesthetic and the vision gonna get finished here?
Because right now the ramp is just plywood.
Once you get through lift off, then it will transition to purple-ly black,
so it feels like you're in space.
- And will I know that when I see it? - Oh, yeah.
This is a great idea. Anything to do with space, I am all-in.
But I'm not seeing a theme right now
emerging from what they have, but all the parts are there.
- Good luck to you guys. - Thank you so much.
Okay. You guys ready to get back to work?
Yeah.
- Perfect. See... - Hey, hey. Green Team.
Hey. We just literally like about five seconds before you walked up,
tried it, and I think it's gonna work.
All right, well, I'm excited to see. Let's-- Show it to me.
It's working.
- Wait a minute. - The cup is not in yet.
- Okay. - So, the weight distribution's off,
but it spins.
I'm just a little nervous for you all, that the course is gonna seem empty.
- I know. - Right now, it's just empty-land.
A lot of green astroturf, without any essence of design of themselves.
I'm wondering if you could just paint on top of the astroturf
some spectacular artwork that you guys are doing,
to really personalize it in a way.
Well, I'm a little bit nervous, but I'm also really excited about
the kind of reveal and the power that this could potentially have.
So, good luck you guys, and I'm looking forward
- to seeing what you guys come up with. - Thank you.
- Great. - Thank you.
It makes me a little nervous knowing that he's nervous about our time.
We just need improvement with the castle.
These are gonna be stirring the wings,
and these are gonna be the support of the plane.
So, where's the beginning of the hole? Over here?
- Yes. It would start right here. - Right there, so you're sitting there,
the plane's here, and then, the propeller is spinning.
And hopefully it doesn't whack the ball.
- Yeah. - Well, I love your ambition, I think,
like, you always gotta go for gold.
But also it seems like there's a lot of work left.
I'm not sure they're gonna finish on time.
I feel like they're gonna get a couple of these cool elements,
and you wanna be fully immersed in the course.
And there's a lot more work that they have to do to get that to work.
Are you sure that you need two planes?
I'm a little bit concerned that we might not finish in time
because after saying it out loud, it seems like it's a lot to do.
- All right. Good luck. - Thank you.
Well, we're running out of time.
Oh, man.
So, what goes away and what stays?
So you work on this. I'll work on this. Okay?
Divide and conquer. It's gonna look beautiful.
- Definitely. - We started out slow
and kind of were speeding up.
Oh, that looks so good, dude.
It's hard work. It's kind of like a horse race
to which I feel like we're ahead of everyone right now.
- Did I miss any? - Almost done.
- Just like, down there. - You just painted all over me.
It's four foot seven.
All right. So what is next? What is next?
I'm looking at streamlining it right now, 'cause we're hurting.
"In order to save time, Team Blue has decided to remove"
"a major component of their design,"
"the downed aircraft that was supposed to serve as an obstacle on the course."
The original plan we had was very complex.
So what we've had to do is start weaning it down.
I really need to get the airplane.
If we had the airplane out there, I'd almost feel good.
It's becoming a-- I won't call it a bare-bones project but,
you know, the superfluous is flowing away.
I feel like it's, like, full enough at the back,
and it's just the airplane and the runway, though.
And maybe one more cloud. Maybe one more cloud.
- Well, if we have time for them. - Yeah.
I hope we can really hurry this up and test our course.
I think Nick and Bella are doing amazing.
Um, if we stay on track and we can pull off everything we'd wanna do,
this is a winner.
Everything on this course, all three of us have had a part of.
So we're doing good. We are on the right course.
- Dang. That's hard. - Exactly. Lift off.
All right. We're back.
- Feels nice. - Fantastic.
We're gonna go to the mill today.
We're gonna get our hole put there. Then we need two holes here.
I have some good news for us.
We are gonna make a moat because, guess what?
We will have a castle today.
All right.
"Feeling optimistic, the Green Team decides"
"to follow Judge Brooks's advice and add a splash of color to their design."
- It's polka dot time. - Yeah.
I feel like we can put some pop into our design,
"and start patting some red and blue and a bunch of colors,"
"and really make our floor actually stand out."
Okay. Is that gonna work?
Oh, yes.
Have to do the airplane. Have to get the hole in the ground.
If I don't, we'll essentially have a mountain range and nothing else.
Even as the project shrinks down, the main element is the moving element
which is the airplane's propeller.
So I'm still keeping it.
That's it.
Okay. Perfect.
- I think this looks good. - Should I start right here?
Right in the middle of it. Yeah. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
- I think this whole thing needs to be - Pull it back.
"Now I may not be an expert builder or even an amateur builder,"
"but I'm still gonna check in on the teams just to see"
"how they're coming along, and to say hi."
What is going on here?
What it-- what do you got? You got uh, a little ramp, I see.
Yeah. You hit it up the ramp and there'll be a platform.
- Okay. - The ball will go through a wormhole.
- Like the silver space-looking... - Oh, just like in space?
- But there's no wormhole over there. - Yeah.
- Oh, that's-- okay. - Yeah. We're gonna be using this.
- Okay. - But there's also another path
you can choose. If this is too challenging...
you can just come this way.
Okay. So they've told you about my mini golf skills.
That's why you're looking at me as you said that.
- So I might wanna go this way? - Exactly.
- Okay. Well, that's cool. - It's very cool to see Justin come by.
He reassured us, and he gave us that energy to keep going forward.
What you don't see is a very giant castle.
- I've heard about this castle. - You've heard about the castle.
- I thought it was only legend. - Well,
Excalibur was a myth but we brought it to life, so we're good.
- That's true. - Right where you're standing,
there's gonna be, like, a fun little spin that just jumps off.
And we didn't tell you about the rotating cup tee, didn't we?
- Oh, no, you didn't. - There's a lot of stuff in the works.
Yes. I mean, as cool as that sounds, the... the clock's ticking.
We are the calm in the eye of the eye of the storm.
Okay. Well, I don't wanna hold you up anymore
because it sounds like you guys have a lot to do.
And it's-- you seem very nervous about it.
So-- okay. Great. I'll go out this way.
So, now what's the next step for you guys?
Just to start putting the decorations on it.
- Okay. - All the main elements and all that.
- Mountains and the airplane. - So you've chosen to have grass,
and then one section without grass. That's interesting.
W--We have to put a lot of things on it before we can grass it.
Okay. Thanks for showing me.
When I finally got into the castle,
"every piece of what I'm cutting, I'm not even looking back."
"I'm hoping that everything I'm cutting is gonna be perfect."
"Everything's tight. It's fitting perfect."
"And we finally started to see that drawing that we had made on day one"
start to come to life.
It was like, "Oh, my gosh. There it is."
Look what I got.
- We can make it. - We can make it.
- Wow! That's pretty big.
I mean, it just gives us one more reason to be better.
- Yeah. - You feel like painting a giant castle?
- Yeah. - Paint a giant castle.
I don't know how Ms. Kim did it.
I don't think we can fix that.
Really? You don't think we can fix that?
- We're rocket scientists. - Uh, there's some here, too.
- Nice. - Oh, God, Nik.
Oh, hey. This is my castle now.
"All three teams are preparing to test their motor mechanism."
"Disney imagineer, Kathryn, stops by to check on their plans."
Those builds are incredible.
I am already impressed, and, uh, they're not even done yet.
So I'm really looking forward to the overall storytelling that they're doing,
and how they're gonna pull everything together.
How are you guys going to utilize your motor and your mechanism?
The motor is gonna be used to move the propeller.
So that's gonna be something you have to dodge in order to get through.
- Exactly. Yeah. - Not keeping things easy here, are you?
That's gonna be harder than it looks, I think.
We threw everything into the moving target.
That is gonna be the showstopper.
It's the little details that matter.
- Shooting for the moon. - Shooting for the moon.
- I love it. - We'll use the motor so
the moon will be just turning at the final hole.
The Gold Team, I think they have a lot of complexity in their course.
But the motorized mechanism, they aren't using as an obstacle.
So we shall see in the end.
Okay.
Oh, jeez
We still got to get paint.
- It's an arm workout and a back thing. - Yeah. Back aching.
I need more rags.
Oh, that looks awesome.
It looks good.
I don't know what to do.
- Hey, guys, guess what? - What?
- The loop-the-loop. - Loop-the-loop.
We have a loop-the-loop that no one knows about.
And I feel like once I bring out the loop-the-loop,
all the other teams are gonna be like, "We need a loop-the-loop."
- Marco, are you good? - No.
I love you, Marco.
Hey, one hour, guys. We got one hour.
Start pouring. Just start pouring.
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on.
Try and get as much paint down as you can.
Guys, this is crazy.
We've got it. We've got it. And it looks good.
Time is not my best friend right now. There's a lot of wasted time thinking.
The castle's finally done, but we have a lot of finishing touches.
I got a big edge you can do out here, Nick.
- Let's get this done. - Just do your best.
We have the moon attached to the motor.
Everything should work well for moving. Our golf course is inside.
One of my biggest worries is the wormhole.
Right now, it's working perfectly. It drops it into the hole.
- "Hey, boys." - "Hey."
- Right over here. - "The problem is"
is that it has moving parts, and so when it moves
from where we are now into the test area...
- Right here, guys. - I need to make sure everything
- is precise and it is working. - Watch your finger.
We're trying to not pay more attention to other teams.
Check these over here. Have you done these?
Yeah. My head's buried, and I-- I'm just moving ahead.
We have five minutes. Five minutes.
- Oh, my God. - Five minutes.
Five f--full minutes, though.
- Yeah. - There we go. There we go.
And you balanced it out.
Wow.
Cool. Eunez, get that finished.
- Oh, my gosh. - I think we're good.
- Ten, nine, eight... - Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Tools down.
I can't believe this is it, guys.
Looks good.
"This was a really long and intense competition,"
but I feel like we really prepared for what we have to come next.
Well, obviously, the mini golf courses look great.
But are they fun to play?
So, to help me answer that question,
I've asked a very special guest to participate in this.
The person I'm talking about has serious putting skills.
In fact, her skills are so great,
it's helped her clinch five LPGA Tour victories.
Yes.
Shop Class, please welcome professional golf champion,
Michelle Wie.
Hi!
"At 13, Michelle became the youngest person"
"to win an adult USGA Championship."
Okay. So it's time to put your creations to test.
Michelle, you wanna play some mini golf?
Let's go. Judges, come on. Let's go check out the Gold Team.
Gold's Moon Shot. Gold Team, this looks incredible.
You should be proud of yourselves. This is amazing.
And, Marco, take us through the course. H--How does this work?
Yeah. So we start off at, like, the Earth.
And then we go through the clouds and into space.
If you go through this wormhole then we land on the moon with a rocket ship.
- Pretty cool. - Yeah.
So talk to me about these two separate venues that you could take.
So here you see this ramp, it's supposed to be, like, lift off.
- I see. Yeah. - It's going to be difficult.
You might underestimate how much power it takes to go up there.
- And... - I'm listening. I'm listening.
Here you could see, you go through the clouds and into outer space.
But there are so many more obstacles here.
- So many more obstacles. - So, your instinct,
just looking at it, w--where would you wanna go?
I mean, just because the wormhole. Who doesn't wanna go through a wormhole?
- It looks fun. - Judges how do you feel?
Brooks, I imagine you have a lot say.
Brooks is actually the only judge who has been in a real wormhole, so...
I mean, I love just pushing the boundaries of design and creativity.
It was a very ambitious undertaking.
And it's really an impressive kind of output that you guys generated
in only three days.
- And Kathryn, do you have any thoughts? - I do.
I just think how you applied and how you brought everything to life
is really impressive, and really there's magic.
- Thank you. - Thank you so much.
- Okay. Let's give it a shot. Michelle? - Yeah.
- All right. Okay. - All right. Let's do this.
So we're going straight for the wormhole.
Wow. Gutsy move.
Wow. Wow.
- That was crazy. - Get out of here.
Wow. The first golf ball to go through a wormhole.
- I made history today, right? - I gotta check with Neil Armstrong.
Th-- Thank you guys so much. Uh, it was so impressive.
But we're heading over to Blue now. So let's go check out what they have.
- Thank you. - Initial thoughts. Go.
Simple, but I really like how they utilize the motor
as part of the adventure of the hole.
Eric, besides me, uh, what else inspired you to create this design?
Kind of, life is an adventure. Y--You wanna soar through the clouds.
You wanna be on top of the world.
You see obstacles and you're gonna have to pass them.
It's a good metaphor for life. It's really cool.
- Very deep. - So, Hailey,
can you walk us through the course? What are-- what are we looking at here?
- Um, so you're gonna start down here. - Okay.
And then the ideal shot would be to go through the propeller,
- straight down to the hole. - Okay.
But if you don't make it, you have to go under the wings
and dodge all the clouds and the mountain,
- and take the long way. - Lauren, what are your thoughts?
You know, you put so much attention to detail...
and it really looks clean and really well thought out.
- I'm really proud of you guys. - Thank you.
Kathryn, you're an imagineer. What do you think?
In terms of the story, this is incredible.
But that first obstacle definitely looks complicated.
The angle at which that ramp is going might be too high.
- So, good luck. - Well, we're gonna have to wait
- and see what happens. - Exactly.
- Okay. - Michelle, are you thinking about
trying to avoid the propeller?
- Or you wanna just go for it? - I think I'll just go for it, right?
That's why you're a professional golfer and I am not.
- There's no shame in that. - Okay. One more,
and then the long way.
Oh. Is it possible to get it through?
It's possible.
- does look great. - Yeah.
- Oh, okay. - Okay. We're going the long way.
- All right. Okay. We're going long way. - Okay.
Well, you guys are not very kind to your, uh, customers.
- I feel if we use the clouds slightly, - Yeah. What do you think?
and then bounce it to-- off the left.
Oh, my God. Why?
- That was awesome. - Wow.
A little tap-a-roo.
Yeah. Wow.
- Nice. - Well done, Michelle.
Thi-- Thi-- This has been f--fun, would you say, but challenging.
- How-- How do you feel? - Yeah. I kind of like that
because it's kind of like life. Sometimes the most obvious path
is not the right path. Then, you know, when I went the long way which the way
that no one wanted to take, and I almost made it.
- Life is an adventure. - That's true. And that was kind of
- your theme all along. - Yeah.
- Well, let's check out the Green Team. - Yeah.
All right.
Wow. So, Bella, uh, walk us through the course.
So we start off with the loop-the-loop.
And we go back and then we go into the castle.
We pass the sword in the stone. And then we have our rotating target.
Amazing. So you've read the course, Michelle. Are you ready to try it?
- Yeah. I'm very excited. Let's do this. - Okay. Let's give it a shot.
Let's see.
- Okay. - Step back.
- Okay! - Nice.
Okay.
- Where'd it go? - Oh, inside the castle.
- It's in the castle. - Inside the castle.
- Come around. - It's coming, it's nine... nine...
- Hurry. Hurry. - Now, how's she gonna get it over this?
'Cause there a divot there. It's elevated.
No.
- One ping. - Yeah!
All right.
- Oh, my gosh. - Good job, guys.
Good job. Good luck.
"The judges get some final thoughts from Michelle Wei..."
If possible, I would like to have seen maybe one more obstacle...
- up the middle of the ramp. - "before they turn their attention"
"back to the teams."
Michelle, thank you so much for joining us.
For testing out all of these incredible creations.
And can we get a nice golf clap for Michelle? Okay.
I just wanna say I'm so impressed with each and every team.
Thanks for letting me play your course. I had so much fun.
Thank you for being here. Thanks, Michelle.
Bye.
Pretty cool.
All right. Guys, this is it. We're gonna hear from the judges now.
Lauren, can we talk about the Gold Team first?
Gold Team, you guys did an incredible job.
I knew exactly the story that you were telling.
I loved your attention to detail.
I know when you cut that AstroTurf, it's not exactly a perfect cut,
but you even spray-painted the joint so that I still have the feeling
that it was all green.
Brooks, what do you think of the Gold Team?
Some elements that I would consider
is a little bit of a degree of difficulty on the ramp.
As you saw, Michelle made it in and she got a hole-in-one.
I love that you went to different level changes.
You've questioning gravity.
You really took it to another level with that idea.
And, Kathryn, how do you feel about Gold?
I was really impressed. Throughout,
element by element, you thought through everything.
You have intention into it.
And it brings the golfer into the story with you. You're going to space.
Some challenges: Maybe looking at the motorized component,
you utilized it as a show element,
but maybe next time look at complexity and using it as an obstacle.
Let's switch it over to the Blue Team. Uh, I'm gonna start with you, Brooks.
What do you think about how the Blue Team did?
I think it's a really stunning overall project in terms of the hole.
The attention to detail, it was really stunning.
And it looks like a very professional course. Ready to play.
Uh, I feel like it's a little bit challenging
to try to make it through the propeller.
Kathryn, what do you think of the Blue Team?
So, just looking at it, your jaw opens.
The texture, the tiny details put into the craft are gorgeous.
And it really has you go into the story.
In terms of the difficulties, the angle and velocity in which
the propeller moves, the angle of the ramp,
all of those things go into planning for that one hit,
and that might just be a little too difficult.
I wish you had tested the design a few more times,
you know, because I think if you had done those blades even a little bit
smaller or thinner, it really would have executed.
But let me just tell you, you guys blew my socks off
when I saw this come to life.
Everything about it looks like it could go in a golf course right now.
Stunning work. I think you were really on to something.
Okay. Well, let's go over the Green. What are your thoughts on the design?
Everything about this is thinking differently and using your imagination.
The payoff of the spinning hole,
I just want to experience more, "Whoa, it's the spinning hole."
And there's just a level of craftsmanship
that the hole is still a little bit not flush.
If you're gonna do something revolutionary, it has to be done very,
very well, otherwise it kind of falls a little bit flat.
I love that from the beginning,
you gave me the loop-the-loop. It was super cool and super creative.
You really thought outside of the box.
One note, and for me as a designer, is spray painting AstroTurf.
There's so much surface to volume ratio
when it comes to painting something like that and it soaks up paint so quickly.
A little bit more detail there would have really shined.
But, overall, great work, guys. I can tell you really put your heart into it.
It's so complex in so many different story elements.
I really think you took us through a new world.
So you have, you know, the little tiny details of the hair
coming out of the window. Those thing immerse you into the experience.
Overall, fantastic experience, and great job.
Now, this is it.
As you know, there's only one team moving on to the semi-finals.
I feel kind of nervous because the other team's builds, they look amazing.
I have a great team. We worked well. And I had a-- a lot of fun.
But, really, I just wanna win.
I'm a little nervous. I think our biggest competitors are Gold Team.
They were brilliant with their design ideas.
The judges have deliberated, and the winning team is...
- The Gold Team. - Yes!
- We did it, guys.
Yes! Finally all these days of hard work,
I could finally see the result, and we won.
We're going on to the next round.
"The Gold Team scored a hole-in-one with the judges,"
"earning Kim, Daron, and Marco a spot in the semi-finals."
Blue Team and Green Team, you're not moving forward,
but you are going home with something awesome.
A fully stocked rolling tool chest.
- So come on. - Awesome.
Gold Team, we will see you in the semi-finals,
- but great job, everybody. So good. - Good job, guys.
One challenge down, two to go,
and we will be the Shop Class champs.
- Gold. - Gold. Oh, you said it way too early.
Well, you know, we'll have plenty of time to practice.
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